Beauty Swellness: Dermalogica Sheer Tint and Cover Tint

I keep fondling my face.

Wait, that sounds a little dirty. Not in a slutty way — I’m just in love with how well hydrated my skin feels after a Dermalogica facial I was treated to today. After a blissful treatment, I was sent home with three products to help with my dehydrated skin and a few tips. Have dehydrated skin? I’ll share the tips; sharing is caring, right?

• Spritz on a good five sprays or so of the Multi-Active Toner, says Amanda, my Dermalogica skin expert today. Good to know as in the past I’ve only been spraying twice, which isn’t nearly enough.
• Use your ring finger to pat on the Intensive Eye Repair (and you only need about a tiny dab the size of a grain of rice total — “this tube should last you about 10 months,” says Amanda). You’ll be as gentle as you need to be in the eye area with your ring finger compared to your index finger.
• For the Skin Hydrating Booster, place 5-10 drops in the palm of one hand and rather than smoothing it all over your face from your palm, dab on the liquid with your fingers (“Smoothing it all over your face using your palm will waste too much of the product in this case,” she says).

She completed my facial by applying the new Dermalogica Cover Tint and Sheer Tint ($60 each) that launch this month. They both offer sheer coveragein three shades (perfect, I think, for travel — I typically go with a simpler makeup routine when on the road) and boast crosslinked hyaluronic acid (which means they bind moisture five time more than non-crosslinked HA).

Five times the moisture-binding. No wonder my skin feels so nice and dewy.

 

 

Hit the books

Go “back to school” with these adorable Benefit “books” on how to look the best at everything. These Complexion Kits, $32 (complete with Porefessional primer, Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow foundation, Boi-ing concealer and Hello Flawless powder) come out in August, but today at Sephora in the Toronto Eaton Centre, you can snap one up in the flash sale they have going on from noon til 7PM!

For glowing skin in a jiffy, eat your fruits & veggies

I falter in getting enough veggies in my diet, but appealing to my vain side is one way to make it much more enticing:

Eating  more fruits and veggies can improve your skin tone and give you more glowing skin in just six weeks, says new research from the University of St. Andrews. This is thanks to the carotenoids (those orange-y red pigments) found in fruits and veg.

Visible results in just six weeks says their findings published in the American Journal for Public Health.

Excuse me for a moment, I need to make a trip to the produce aisle right now.